Daisy Lowe's 'curvy' figure is much exaggerated, claims Zara Martin, the model
and television presenter.

Daisy Lowe makes much of being “curvy”, but her fellow model Zara Martin is keen to keep things in perspective.

“She isn’t curvy compared to the average woman,” Martin tells Mandrake at the VeryFirstTo Awards at No 5 Cavendish Square, in London. “But, obviously, she’s talking about herself in the context of the modelling industry that she’s in, so I suppose she is right to say she’s not skinny since she isn’t a ridiculously tiny size zero.”

Martin, who presents the Sky television programme Show Me Your Wardrobe, says she moved away from modelling after she didn’t fit the industry’s unrealistic standards of beauty.

“I’m working on some music TV projects this year. I’d love to meet Simon Cowell – I think we’d be great friends. I have this dark side of me and a dark sense of humour, and I think Simon is exactly the same.”

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Gemma Gibbons, who won a silver medal at the London Olympics, has announced her engagement to her fellow Team GB judo competitor Euan Burton.

The problem is that she is not allowed to slim down for her wedding dress because she wants to remain in the same weight category, –78kg, at the next Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro.

“I want to feel good about myself when I get married, so I thought about getting married in September 2016, after Rio, but that would have left me three weeks to lose the weight, so I was wondering about summer 2017,” she says.

The couple decided that they were not prepared to wait so long and will tie the know next year, after the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. “If Euan proposed to me like this, I am sure he will marry me like this,” she says.

Radio play

Her name may not be familiar to listeners, but Angela Bond, who has died aged 85, was one of the most influential people in radio. The Radio 1 producer first brought Pink Floyd to British audiences and launched the outrageous career of Kenny Everett.

Bond, whose funeral will be held at St Andrew’s Church, in Holt, Norfolk, on Friday, persuaded a nervous BBC to give Everett his first programme. The wife of a naval officer, she chose the music for the show, while Everett’s camp humour attracted audiences of around five million.

Known for her colourful headwear, until a colleague told her that only lesbians at the BBC wore hats, Bond became Everett’s confidante as well as his producer.